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McAfee Endpoint Security Platform: CVE-2021-31842: Endpoint security for windows update fixes two vulnerabilities (SB10367)

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McAfee Endpoint Security Platform: CVE-2021-31842: Endpoint security for windows update fixes two vulnerabilities (SB10367)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/17/2021
Created
08/29/2022
Added
08/16/2022
Modified
08/16/2022

Description

XML Entity Expansion injection vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2021 Update allows a local user to initiate high CPU and memory consumption resulting in a Denial of Service attack through carefully editing the EPDeploy.xml file and then executing the setup process.

Solution(s)

  • mcafee-endpoint-security-platform-upgrade-10-6-1-2402
  • mcafee-endpoint-security-platform-upgrade-10-7-0-3012

References

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